[solved: kind of ] Related records disappearing

Hi all,

I've got a model, Transaction, that has hasMany relationships with an Extra, and an Item model.

My controller is creating a list of new Extra models and Item models to be associated with a new Transaction model - essentially it's converting $_POST data into models.

In my controller I have this code:

if(isset($_POST['extra'])){
    $extra = [];
    foreach($this->request->getPost('extra') as $name=>$value){
        $Extra         = new \Pay\Model\Extra();
        $Extra->name   = $name;
        $Extra->value  = $value;

        $extra[] = $Extra;
    }
    $Transaction->extra = $extra;
}

if(isset($_POST['items'])){
    $items = [];
    foreach($this->request->getPost('items') as $key=>$item){
        $Item              = new \Pay\Model\Item();
        $Item->name        = (isset($item['name']))         ? $item['name']         : '';
        $Item->price       = (isset($item['price']))        ? $item['price']        : '';
        $Item->tax         = (isset($item['tax']))          ? $item['tax']          : '';
        $Item->count       = (isset($item['count']))        ? $item['count']        : '';
        $Item->speedcode   = (isset($item['speedcode']))    ? $item['speedcode']    : NULL;
        $Item->accountcode = (isset($item['accountcode']))  ? $item['accountcode']  : NULL;

        $items[] = $Item;
    }
    $Transaction->items = $items;
}

As you can see, the process for populating $Transaction->extra and $Transaction->items is pretty much identical.

However, I have 2 problems: 1) When doing my validation (not with \Phalcon validation, but my own code), $Transaction->items is set, but calling $Transaction->countItems() returns 0. Therefore I can't loop through $Transaction->items to see if they're all valid. For all intents and purposes, $Transaction->items is essentially not set.

If I put calls to count() in:

echo count($items);
$Transaction->items = $items;
echo count($Transaction->items);

I get "20" output - "2" for the count of $items, and 0 for the count $Transaction->items.

What the hell is happening to $items?

2) While $Transaction->extra is exhibiting all the same problems, the models do get saved in the database properly. Why, when the Transaction->Extra relationship is exactly the same as the Transaction->Item relationship, does one get saved but not the other?

Also, I'm using v1.3.0